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Hollywood’s Nomads: On Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed”
Ned Resnikoff reviews Pamela Robertson Wojcik’s “Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.”
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
From Aspiration to Constriction: On Three New Books Examining Change in China
Martin Laflamme reviews three recent books that help understand the opening of China during the 1980s–2000s, and its closing again under Xi Jinping’s rule in the 2010s.
Deprovincializing Criticism: On Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics”
Christopher Newfield reviews Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction.”
The “Tedious Parody” of Colonialism: On Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib”
Meena Venkataramanan reviews two novels imagining the experiences of English literary figures George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham in Southeast Asia: Tan Twan Eng’s “The House of Doors” and Paul Theroux’s “Burma Sahib.”
Killerheimer: American Betrayal in Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan
Jimmy So analyzes what “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” have to say about America.
So You Believe in Intergenerational Trauma? A Conversation with Katya Apekina
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Katya Apekina about her second novel, “Mother Doll.”
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Opium Smuggler: On Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes”
Noah Sparkes reviews Amitav Ghosh’s “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.”
No Accident: On Two New Books About the Occupied Territories
David N. Myers reviews Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy” and Mikhael Manekin’s “End of Days: Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel.”
The City of the Future: A Conversation with Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti
For the Rules We Live By series, Julien Crockett interviews Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon about their new book “Atlas of the Senseable City.”
A Host of Demands: On Katie Rogers’s “American Woman”
Lindsay Chervinsky reviews Katie Rogers’s “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.”
Churchill in the Era of TikTok: A Conversation with Simon Shuster
Sally McGrane talks to Simon Shuster, the biographer of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Why Hitch Still Matters: On Christopher Hitchens’s “A Hitch in Time”
Marius Sosnowski reviews Christopher Hitchens’s posthumous collection “A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration.”
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